The 26th Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games 26) officially opened in Palembang city in the South Sumatra province of Indonesia on the evening of November 11.

Hopeful Tran Van Long failed to clinch the first gold medal for Vietnam at canoeing competitions in Indonesia on November 11.

A Vietnam Airlines plane, carrying hundreds of Vietnamese athletes to the 26th SEA Games, landed at Sultan Badaruddin airport in Palempang city, Indonesia on November 10.  

Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Hoang Tuan Anh has presented US$2,000 to Vietnam’s U23 football team for its win over East Timor.

The opening ceremony of the 26th Southeast Asia Games (SEA Games 26) will be held on the evening of November 11, not in the morning as scheduled, according to the event’s organising board. 

The U23 Vietnamese team felt under pressure to win the third match of the 26th SEA Games first stage against East Timor after drawing with Myanmar on November 6.

Vietnam took a ticket to the final round of the 2011 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) U-19 Championships in Ho Chi Minh City on November 9.  

A ceremony was held in Jakarta, Indonesia, on November 9 to hoist the national flags of countries participating in the 26th Southeast Asian Games, including Vietnam.

Forty-one athletes flew to Indonesia on November 9 aiming for more than 20 medals in total, including 7 to 9 golds.

Vietnamese runners will receive a VND100 million cash-prize if they qualify for the 2012 London Olympics during competitions at the Southeast Asian Games in Indonesia from November 12-16.

Nearly 3,000 journalists, including many from Vietnam, will be present at the various venues of the 26th SEA Games in Indonesia to cover all the events, according to the Indonesia Southeast Asia Games Organizing Committee (INASOC).

Vietnam's top badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh is looking for gold at the upcoming Southeast Asian (SEA) Games in Indonesia.

Vietnam secured a 4-0 win over Laos in their third qualifying game of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) U19 Championship in Ho Chi Minh City’s Thong Nhat Stadium on November 6.

Nearly 160 young martial artists from the Republic of Korea (RoK) and Thailand and seven cities and provinces in Vietnam are competing in the 2011 Junior Taekwondo Open Championships in Hanoi on November 5-6.  

The Vietnamese team failed to score in their match against Myanmar on November 6, although it played with one more team member than their opponents from the 59th minute in the second half.  

The Vietnam national track and field team hopes to take home eight gold medals at this year's 26th SEA Games in Indonesia later this month.

After 31 years of waiting, Vietnamese players have taken the throne at the 15th Asian Xiangqi (Chinese chess) Individual Championship on November 4 with two gold medals in the men’s and women’s individual event.

An art performance to send off Vietnamese officials and athletes to the 26th SEA Games in Indonesia will be held at the National Sports Training Centre in Hanoi at 7.40pm on November 4.

The Vietnam Tennis Federation (VTF) and the American giant , Nike, have signed a deal to sponsor the national tennis team for the 26th SEA Games in Indonesia.

Vietnam set off on their quest for a champion title at the 26th Southeast Asian Games in Indonesia after defeating the Philippines 3-1 in their opening game on November 3.

Vietnam’s top chess players, Le Quang Liem and Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son, have received a total of VND4.2 billion (US$200,000) in sponsorship over four years, from 2012-2015.

The 2011 provincial Table Tennis Championships kicked off in the Central Highland province of Dak Lak on November 3.

Having gained remarkable achievements in many international sporting events the Vietnamese Taekwondo team is now set to win some more gold medals and Olympic berths from the 26th SEA Games in Indonesia.  

Vietnam’s chess team is set to win at least three gold medals at the 26th Southeast Asia Games in Indonesia this November.  

The Vietnmese Karatedo team is set to win 3-4 gold medals at the 26th SEA Games in Indonesia.  

The national U23 football team left for Indonesia on October 31 on its quest for a SEA Games gold medal.

The General Department of Sports and Physical Training and the Vietnam Olympics Committee held a ceremony at the Hanoi Opera House on the evening of October 30 to see off a Vietnamese delegation to the 26th SEA Games in Indonesia.

Bitexco Vertical Run 2011, the first-ever skyscrapers running competition in Vietnam, took place in Ho Chi Minh City on October 30.

The Vietnamese chess team aims to win at least three gold medals out of the nine categories at the 26th SEA Games in Indonesia to be held in November.

The National Table Tennis tournament closed at Phan Chau Trinh sports hall in the central city of Danang on October 28.